Ghost Town

“An uncompromising, unsentimental, slyly humorous novel.” * Irish Times *“Chen offers a haunting… drama of a Taiwanese family’s efforts to rise out of poverty.” * Publishers Weekly *“Chen’s characters are vibrant and quirky, and his writing style is consistently precise and sharp; Taiwanese cultural issues are framed in enlightening fashion.” * Buzz Magazine *“Wildly poetic, it sings and dances. This book is magical, it is truly poetic. It is captivating, it is painful, it is rich and vibrant.” * Books and Bao *“Rich and complicated.” * The News Lens *“Ghost Town is a masterpiece of twenty-first century Taiwanese ‘native soil’ literature.” * United Daily News (Taiwan) *“Magical, fierce, pungent, and cruel.” * BIOS Monthly *

Kevin Chen began his artistic career as a cinema actor, starring in the Taiwanese and German films Ghosted, Kung Bao Huhn, and Global Player. Now based in Germany, he is a staff writer for Performing Arts Reviews magazine. He’s published several novels, essays and short story collections, including Attitude, Flowers from Fingernails, Three Ways to Get Rid of Allergies and other titles.

Darryl Sterk is a scholar specialising in the representation of Taiwan’s aboriginal peoples in film and fiction, as well as a writer and literary translator specialising in Taiwan literature.